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NOVEMBER 2002 My Testimony Friend Stories of Prayer like to read the stories in the IFriend. I also like doing the ne Saturday, my family went on an all-day Funstuf. I think it’s great that we Obike ride with the youth in our branch. My have the Friend to read. It helps sister (8) and I (then 6) rode our own bikes the me get back on track when I whole 17 miles (about read the stories of problems 27 km). The ride was people have faced. Well, I hope a lot of fun, but by the that we keep getting the Friend end, I was so tired every month. I am glad we have it. that I didn’t know if I Daniel Dickson, age 12 could make it to the Sumner, Washington end. With about a mile to go, my parents The Priesthood and and I fell behind the group. It began to “My Scripture” rain. ne night, I couldn’t sleep because I was very In a few minutes, Oscared about things that weren’t there. I the rain was pouring asked my dad if he would give me a blessing. He so hard that we couldn’t even see where we were gave me one, and my mom tucked me back in going. Soaking wet and very cold, we stopped for bed. Then she pulled out my Bible and starting shelter under a tree. We didn’t know if we should reading from Psalms. When she stay where we were or try to go on in the rain. My got to Psalm 4:8, it was all dad suggested that I ask Heavenly Father to help about my trouble falling asleep! us. I prayed for Him to please stop the rain so that It said, “I will both lay me down we could go on and meet up with the rest of the in peace, and sleep: for thou, group safely and not get lost. Lord, only makest me dwell in As soon as I finished my prayer, the rain safety.” We said it was “my stopped and the sun came out and began warm- scripture,” and my mom typed ing us up. We felt the Holy Ghost really strong just it on a piece of paper for me, and I was able to then, and I was very relieved and happy. We rode get to sleep. I know that Heavenly Father puts the last mile to our group in dry weather, then of- things in the scriptures to help us. I also know that fered another prayer to thank Heavenly Father for blessings really help you, and I’m glad my dad has sending us a miracle. I have a testimony that the priesthood so that he can give them to me. Heavenly Father answers our prayers. Melanie Fry, age 11 Noah Siddoway, age 7 Layton, Utah Stevens Point, Wisconsin ILLUSTRATED BY BRAD TEARE The Friend welcomes your letters sharing a spiritual experience, your testimony, or your feelings about the Friend magazine. Send them to Childviews, Friend, 24th Floor, 50 East North Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150–3226. Please include a picture of yourself and your name, age, and address. Submissions may be edited for length and clarity. Volume 32 Number 11 November 2002 The First Presidency A children’s magazine published by Gordon B. Hinckley Thomas S. 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Come Listen to a Prophet's Voice It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord (Psalm 92:1). GRATITUDE President Gordon B. Hinckley is grateful for many things, but for one thing above all others. 2 THE FRIEND am overwhelmed with feelings of thanks- giving. I feel so richly blessed of the Lord. I I think no man has been blessed so richly as I have been blessed. I cannot understand it. Through the great goodness of others, I have traveled far and wide across the earth in the inter- est of this Church. I have had remarkable opportu- nities to speak to the world. I have lifted my voice in testimony in great halls. Men and women of high station have received me and spoken with great respect concerning our work. Thank you for your prayers. Thank you for your support. Thank you for your obedience to the commandments of God. He is pleased and loves you. Thank you for the testimonies you carry in your hearts concerning God our Eternal Father and His Beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. I am [deeply] grateful for this wonderful season of history in which we live. There has never been another like it. We, of all people who have walked I recall jumping into my bed after I had said the earth, are so richly blessed. amen, pulling the covers up around my neck, and But of all the things for which I feel grateful, thinking of what I had just done in speaking to my one stands [above all the others]. That is a living Father in Heaven in the name of His Son. I did not testimony of Jesus Christ, the Son of the Almighty have great knowledge of the gospel. God, the Prince of Peace, the Holy One. But there was some kind of lingering peace and The earliest [time I can remember having] spiri- security in communing with the heavens in and tual feelings was when I was about five years of through the Lord Jesus. age, a very small boy. I was crying from the pain That testimony grew in my heart as a mission- of an earache.There were no wonder drugs at the ary when I read the New Testament and the Book time. My mother prepared a bag of table salt and of Mormon, which further bore witness of [the put it on the stove to warm.